So I think whether WB survives or not, Gunn will be given a chance because he's been successful so far.  Not billion dollars but still profitable and successful with fans and critics.  Now if Supergirl is a disaster or if Man of Tomorrow is a disaster, all bets are off.  But no matter who owns WB, I think Gunn will get an opportunity.

How many reboots did X-Men have with FOX? One?

What success did Sony's reboot of Spider-Man really have if THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN II saw this iteration of the franchise shuttered with all spinoffs and sequels terminated and Sony joining Marvel for a coproduction?

The only news I see if Gunn leaving DC due to a potential sale of WB is absurd clickbait websites offended by any project where men and women and non-binaries and transgender people are treated as equals.

If Gunn does a good job, DC Studios might simply be left alone. But regardless, even if WB were sold today, we wouldn't see any changes until 2028.

At the same time, I'm not in a position to stop my government from doing anything they want, so that part does sort of ring true. I would say the end of Season 2 suffers from needing the Salvation prison to be left open as a plot point for SUPERGIRL, MAN OF TOMORROW, LANTERNS, etc.

I think if the answer is "Checkmate is in no position to take down Flag" then that should have been acknowledged.  In an episode that was already significantly longer than the normal episode, I think they could have spent two minutes with a scene between Peacemaker, Harcourt, and Adebayo that went over the unlikelihood of a direct assault on ARGUS.  Maybe something as simple as.

PEACEMAKER
Okay, what are we doing about this prison?

HARCOURT
Nothing, for now?

PEACEMAKER
Nothing?

ADEBAYO
They could have hundreds of people moved to that prison by now.  How can we do nothing?

HARCOURT
A week ago, we probably could've caught them by surprise.  But Fleury says they've increased security a hundred-fold.  No one gets in or out unless Flag is present personally.  It's a fortress.

ADEBAYO
We could still...

HARCOURT
We could, but we'd lose people.  I think we have a plan, but we're going to need to be patient.

PEACEMAKER
In the meantime, let's do as much good as we can.

I don't know, something that at least acknowledges that they want to do something but just can't at this point.  Or, like I said before, don't let them find out about the prison.  Maybe Checkmate's first mission is to figure out what Flag is up to.

Either way, I think they're allowed to be excited that they're back together and happy and have a path, but the ending certainly implies that they don't care about the prison.  And they immediately pay for that if that's the case.

Even with my confusion sorted, I don't really understand why the team was so celebratory at the end of Season 2. They had strong moral objections to Rick Flag, but nothing they did seemed to actually oppose him.

At the same time, I'm not in a position to stop my government from doing anything they want, so that part does sort of ring true. I would say the end of Season 2 suffers from needing the Salvation prison to be left open as a plot point for SUPERGIRL, MAN OF TOMORROW, LANTERNS, etc.

Well, the members of ARGUS who showed clear dissatisfaction with Flag Sr. left to join Checkmate.  You got the sense that they would become a foil for ARGUS, and eventually attempt to defeat Flag.  Hence the celebrating.  The finale's ending was not well received, because, it was a cliffhanger and now Gunn says he's not doing another season.

PS: Was very cool to see a band I'd actually seen (over a decade or so back) Foxy Shazam get the theme song on this season.  They were one of the openers for Panic! at the Disco in 2011 in NJ.  LOL.

At the same time, I'm not in a position to stop my government from doing anything they want, so that part does sort of ring true. I would say the end of Season 2 suffers from needing the Salvation prison to be left open as a plot point for SUPERGIRL, MAN OF TOMORROW, LANTERNS, etc.

And I think the character resolution was really good.  I just wish the plot was either better wrapped up or the team was a little less aware of the villain plot.  As it stands, they basically ignored Flag's plan.

I did binge through Peacemaker's season 2, which of course featured the parallel "Nazi" world with doppelgangers and such.  Fantastic work by all involved.  Of course, Gunn was noncommittal on the show's future, though I suspect characters will play a run in the Lanterns show.

I think the season was very good from a character perspective, but I thought the plotting was very odd.  The way that the finale is set up, it felt like the kind of episode where they go and steal back the multiversal device or prevent the prison from being a thing in some other way.  Instead, they...do nothing?  This isn't a situation where the bad guys have a plan, and the good guys don't know about it yet.

They know that Rick Flag is creating a metahuman prison, but they spend a bunch of time and energy creating a new spy organization.  Now maybe their plan is to create Checkmate and then go after Flag, but how many metahumans could they have imprisoned by then?  It seemed like they had a window to go after Flag, and they didn't really take advantage of it.

And I get it's a shared universe and that Gunn is writing basically everything at this point, but it leaves an unsatisfying feeling in the audience when the good guys don't even try to stop the bad guy.  I can understand why the plot wasn't "save Earth X" because I don't think our guys are nearly equipped to do that.  But our team, with Bordeaux and Harcourt and Judomaster and Fleury all as inside guys, against a handful of ARGUS agents?  That's something our team would be pretty good at.  And I would assume they could fairly easily win that if they had made any effort.

And, yeah, they'd basically be back at square one on the run with Flag chasing after them, but at least they would've made an effort.  And if they were going to immediately take down Flag, I don't think they really showed that (unless I missed it) they were even planning on going after the prison.  It played like "oh well, Flag is a bad guy.  Let's start an agency to do some good."

I do think a lot of the character beats were hit, and I thought the whole thing was well done.  And I get that Gunn will work through these plot threads.  But to leave the plot here is super weird.

I would have preferred if the season ended with the good guys knowing nothing of Flag's plan.  Maybe Judomaster/Fleury/Harcourt all abandon ARGUS before Salvation is even found, they create Checkmate, and then Flag reveals his plan to the audience (but none of Peacemaker's team).  Then Peacemaker is sent there.  Then, at least, the good guys don't look like they're simply ignoring the problem.

It also leaves the DCU in a weird place.  I don't really know if any of this will get followed up in Lanterns, but if it gets followed up in Man of Tomorrow...where does it leave that?  Is Man of Tomorrow going to take place in Salvation?  Is Superman going to go up against ARGUS and Lex?  Is Superman going to go rescue Peacemaker?  I love all the Peacemaker characters, but they play in completely different sandboxes.  I'd prefer if they were kept separate.

But I trust Gunn, and I'm still excited to see what he does with all this.

Then I remembered: the team had in fact been working for ARGUS and started a new organization.

I realized: they had been working for ARGUS and not Checkmate in SUICIDE SQUAD, THE SUICIDE SQUAD and PEACEMAKER, but I'd conflated ARGUS and Checkmate because in the comics and on SMALLVILLE, Checkmate is Amanda Waller's organization, has existed since 1988, and ARGUS was only created in 2012. I'd gotten the two organizations mixed up in the context of the DCEU and the James Gunn DCU and by my own distraction.

I think, if anything, Gunn's story has too much appreciation for comics - I think it was a bit of a barrier of entry to enjoying the film (there's so much going on).

Yeah, I guess in some ways, it's almost like seeing Star Wars for the first time; there's aliens, laser guns, robots and all kinds of weird shit going on in the background.

Superman had a lot of stuff going on in the movie, but it didn't turn into the exposition dump of Ayer's Suicide Squad movie, of spending the first half of the movie trying to introduce all these characters and extraneous characters, etc.

Who would be your non-terrible choice?

What I would want is simply impossible, because DCU exists (like Marvel or Star Wars etc) simply to produce content.  I have to say, having these properties gobbled up by giant corporations and assigned studios to themselves has probably run its course.  It used to be that a Warner Bros would produce all kinds of movies.  A Batman or Superman film would simply be ONE or TWO of all those dozens and dozens of movies the studio made.  They now exist as their own units, and the needs to show revenue is simply too much.